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As senior vice president and general manager, global marketing, Marc Sokol drives CA's strategic marketing activities in more than 100 countries. His responsibilities encompass product positioning, analyst relations, public relations, channel marketing, advertising and creative services, and event and Web marketing. A self-proclaimed "technologist at heart," Mr. Sokol is widely recognized as an authority on Internet and infrastructure technologies, neural networks and visualization technologies. He testified before the U.S. Congress on the Year 2000 computer issue, and addressed the United Nations on the challenges of managing global computing infrastructures. He has worked in the IT industry for 25 years. Prior to CA, he was co-founder and executive vice president of Realia, Inc., where he co-authored the Realia COBOL compiler. Earlier, he was a software developer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.